After working a deal with a familiar trade partner, the Sharks chose Russian right wing Nikolay Goldobin with the 27th pick in the NHL draft on Friday.

The Sharks had been scheduled to pick 20th, but sent that choice and a sixth-rounder to Chicago for the 27th pick and a third-rounder, No. 62 overall.

Goldobin, a 6-foot, 185-pounder, was ranked by NHL Central Scouting as the 24th best player in the draft. His agent is former Sharks forward Igor Larionov.

Goldobin, 18, had 38 goals and 56 assists last season with Sarnia of the Ontario Hockey League, ranking him seventh in scoring in the OHL. His goal total tied him for 14th in the league and he was tied for ninth in assists. However, his minus-30 plus/minus rating shows his game needs some work.

"I have to be more responsible in the defensive zone for a chance at the NHL," Goldobin told a writer for the Sharks' website. "I will try everything. My dream is to play NHL."

"His strengths are his offensive ability," Sharks scouting director Tim Burke said in a news release. "It kept coming back to this guy. He has a lot of offensive ability, scoring, playmaking."

He's No. 1: Florida chose defenseman Aaron Ekblad with the first pick in the draft.

Ekblad, a 6-foot-4, 214-pounder who played for Barrie in the OHL, is the first defenseman to go No. 1 since St. Louis took Erik Johnson in 2006.

"That is the burden of expectation. I chase it," Ekblad, 18, said. "I want that burden of expectation. I want that feel for motivation and I want to succeed under that."

Buffalo selected center Sam Reinhart with the second overall pick. He is the son of former NHL player Paul Reinhart, who was the Atlanta Flames' first-round pick in 1979.

Ducks get Kesler: Anaheim acquired center Ryan Kesler, who had requested a trade, and a third-round pick in next year's draft from Vancouver for forward Nick Bonino, defenseman Luca Sbisa and the 24th selection - which the Canucks used to take center Jared McCann from Sault Ste. Marie of the OHL.

"He just felt he needed a fresh start, and quite frankly we don't want somebody that doesn't want to be here," Canucks general manager Jim Benning said of Kesler. "We're going to acquire high-quality people that are going to come in here and want to work hard for one another, so we didn't give it much thought."

In other moves:

-- Arizona (formerly Phoenix) began the process of buying out the final three years of the contract of center Mike Ribeiro, who signed a four-year, $22 million deal last year.